Japanese cultural traits 'at heart of Fukushima disaster'

Misplaced deference and other "ingrained conventions" of Japanese culture were at the heart of last year's meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, according to the chairman of an independent panel whose scathing report, released on Thursday, described the accident as a "profoundly man-made disaster". In his combative preface to the report, Kiyoshi Kurokawa, a medical doctor and professo